Congress is in recess today, so the Pasadena lawmaker flew back to Washington D.C. just for this protest, according to a spokeswoman.
Southern California lawmaker Judy Chu was among several dozen people arrested Thursday in Washington D.C. during a protest in support of abortion rights.
Representative Judy Chu, a Democrat from California, center right, is detained by US Capitol Police for blocking an intersection with abortion rights demonstrators during a protest near the US Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., US, on Thursday, June 30, 2022.
Chu, D-Pasadena, is the principal sponsor of the Women's Health Protection Act, which would establish a federal right to abortion care. "When I first heard Roe was overturned, I immediately thought of who would be most harmed by this decision: a young girl who is a survivor of rape, a woman who cannot afford to travel to another state to access critical care, an expecting mother with an ectopic pregnancy whose life is in danger because she cannot have an abortion," Chu said in a statement.
You can count on me to never give up in this fight. I'm going to be marching and fighting with you ever step of the way.
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